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Author:

Krasnostein, Sarah, author.

Title:

The trauma cleaner : one woman's extraordinary life in the business of death, decay, and disaster / Sarah Krasnostein.

Edition:

First U.S. edition.

Publisher:

St. Martin's Press,

Copyright Date:

2018

Description:

291 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm

Subject:

Pankhurst, Sandra.
Cleaning personnel--Australia--Biography.
Death--Australia.
Accidents--Australia.
Biographies.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-288).

Summary:

Before she was a trauma cleaner, Sandra Pankhurst was many things: husband and father, drag queen, gender reassignment patient, sex worker, small businesswoman, trophy wife. . . But as a little boy, raised in violence and excluded from the family home, she just wanted to belong. Now she believes her clients deserve no less. A woman who sleeps among garbage she has not put out for forty years. A man who bled quietly to death in his living room. A woman who lives with rats, random debris and terrified delusion. The still life of a home vacated by accidental overdose. Sarah Krasnostein has watched the extraordinary Sandra Pankhurst bring order and care to these, the living and the dead--and the book she has written is equally extraordinary. Not just the compelling story of a fascinating life among lives of desperation, but an affirmation that, as isolated as we may feel, we are all in this together.

ISBN:

1250101204
9781250101204

OCLC:

(OCoLC)983608840

LCCN:

2017045751

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